What have you done to your car today?

Front chassis rails looked something like this yesterday

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Now all chopped out, cleaned up ready for repair panels to be welded in tomorrow

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Bonnet also taken back to bare metal and etch primed, just needs wet flatting and painting later in the week.

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Not that surprising considering it's practically 20 years old.

Once the engine is rebuilt in the new year I'll start working my way around blasting, power coating and rebushing all of the arms and subframes
 
Frozennova said:
Not that surprising considering it's practically 20 years old.

Once the engine is rebuilt in the new year I'll start working my way around blasting, power coating and rebushing all of the arms and subframes
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More like not surprising considering its an MX5. Things rot like nobodies business. Those rails are awful though, you've definitely saved one from the scrapheap! :p

You using the MX5Restorer repair panels or making your own?
 
bJN said:
So you've put a non-genuine PCB in? Might as well be a 316d now :p
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I done did something silly.

Managed to somehow order a blank key+case instead of the fob PCB, hence why it was only a fiver. Only realised when I opened the jiffy this morning.

Doh!

In hindsight the amount I've spent on cheap fob bits over the past year would have gone half way toward a new OEM key anyway. I've since ordered a new whole key from the main dealer.
 
mrk said:
I done did something silly.

Managed to somehow order a blank key+case instead of the fob PCB, hence why it was only a fiver. Only realised when I opened the jiffy this morning.

Doh!

In hindsight the amount I've spent on cheap fob bits over the past year would have gone half way toward a new OEM key anyway. I've since ordered a new whole key from the main dealer.
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I had a locksmith come out and do me a new flip key was £90 and was able to get my insurance company to pay for it.
 
What car is it?

Higher start-up amps just means a higher cold start rating in bitter cold conditions. We in the UK don't get such conditions really, but if your car is old, then over-speccing the battery may be useful in the long run as the engine may need to crank more times in colder weather before firing up.

£87 isn't expensive for a battery either, and it's got 4yrs warranty. Buy, install, then forget.
 
After a couple of hours diagnosing and almost of week of pondering I'm still not particularly any closer to working out what damage the MX5 engine has sustained.

Exhaust manifold isn't cracked.
2 cylinders low on compression
Piston crown to top of the cam cover measures the same on all 4 so no bent rods.
No usual noises

That leaves headgasket, but then it isn't using coolant, there's no oil/coolant contamination either. Completely confused
 
I'm sure you've checked already, but a minor boost leak?

ignore that... you mentioned compression is down.

If there's no smoke to indicate a ring land, I think it's time to whip the head off and investigate.
 
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